Please Note: Tonight's Book Group meeting is going to be via Zoom. For more information please email Krista McLeod

Spring Series: A Hundred Years of the Pulitzer Prize: Part One

Let's explore some of the most lauded American books. The Pulitzer Prizes were established just after the First World War, and while our tastes have changed, and the prizes have evolved, do the prize winners stand the test of time? We will read one title from each decade of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This series will conclude in Fall 2024.

April's Book is: 1928 Pulitzer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

This short novel tells the story of a religious man's spiritual quest to determine why God allows disasters to occur. Wilder sets the action in Lima, Peru, in 1714, where a Franciscan monk witnesses the collapse of a bridge that has stood for over a century, killing the five people on it. The Bridge of San Luis Rey has been recognized as a literary masterpiece. Its unique mixture of the spiritual with the humane has given readers throughout the decades a point of reference when considering the apparent horrors that can occur in our world.

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